Archive: December 2000

Rudolph J.

Posted on December 14, 2000

S.S. St. Louis experience I was born on May 11, 1933. After the promulgation of the Nurnberg laws in 1935, my parents decided there was no future for them or their in children in Nazi Germany and applied for a U.S. immigration quota number. It would be four years before this number would come up. Continue Reading »

Goldie S.

Posted on December 14, 2000

Goldie survived the Auschwitz camp. Some questions and answers: #1 How long did you stay in Auschwitz? Five and 1/2 months. Went in with my mother and 2 sisters, was 13 1/2 years old when war ended. #2 What was your daily schelude? Did it vary from day to day? Because I was so young Continue Reading »

Richard V.

Posted on December 14, 2000

I was born in Warsaw Poland and I lived there until 1939. In that year, after Germans occupied Poland, my parents and I managed to get across the border to the eastern part of Poland that was occupied by Russia. Due to various government restrictions we managed to finish up in a little village called Continue Reading »

Gerda S.

Posted on December 14, 2000

I was born in Przemysl, Poland, but after the Russians occupied Eastern Poland, we moved in to Lwow, to avoid being sent to camps in Russia. My father was a business man and was considered “an enemy of the state”. The Germans occupied our area in June of 1941 and we were forced into a Continue Reading »

Malka B.

Posted on December 14, 2000

My parents were originally from a small town near the larger city of Lodz, in Poland. They came to live in Paris right after their marriage in 1930, and I was born there in August of 1931. Ours was a large family. My mother and father were cousins and each had six brothers and sisters. Continue Reading »

Rene G.

Posted on December 14, 2000

I was born in Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, 25 March 1934. My parents had immigrated from Western Poland. In 1940, after the German invasion of the Benelux countries, we moved to Brussels, where I began my primary education, in Flemish. But as insecurity grew, we fled in August 1942 to the  Unoccupied Zone of Continue Reading »

Henry O.

Posted on December 11, 2000

  Henry O   I was born in Amsterdam in April, 1940, a month before the German invasion of  the Netherlands (10th May 1940). My father was born in Krakow, now Poland.   He had moved to Vienna , Austria, at the age of 14.  He moved to Amsterdam in 1925 where he joined some of Continue Reading »

Aaron E.

Posted on December 11, 2000

Aaron E. Aaron lives in Chicago, Illinois, USA Good Afternoon, Honorable Mayor, (Mrs. Daley,) Distinguished guests, Fellow Survivors (by whose presence I am truly humbled), Students, Ladies and Gentleman The questions ladies and gentlemen is why do we speak about the holocaust?  Why do I speak? I speak because I can still be heard. Our Continue Reading »

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